Day in photos: March 5, 2013

Anti-Mursi protesters launch a tear gas cannister back at riot cops during clashes in front of the national Security Directorate in Port Said.

Reuters

A banner bearing the face of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is seen from inside a military hospital’s chapel, in Caracas. The leftist revolutionary leader has died, the Venezuelan government announced.

AP

Tampa Bay’s Wil Myers rubs dirt into his hands between pitches during the fourth inning of an exhibition game against the Minnesota Twins.

AP

Georg Holm of Sigur Ros performs at the Apollo in Manchester, England.

WireImage

A Bahraini woman passes a wall plastered with pictures of Mahmoud al-Jazeeri, 20, during his funeral procession in Nabih Saleh. Al-Jazeeri died two weeks ago after being hit by a tear gas canister fired by riot police.

AP

Charlie Regenold, 5, gets a ride to his Minneapolis, Minn., bus stop from his dog Rodney.

ZUMA Press

Models present a cagey creation by Alexander McQueen fashion house at its Paris Fashion Week show.

AP

Locusts land on a dune in Israel’s Negev Desert, part of a larger swarm that crossed the border from Egypt the day before, touching off fears of a plague of biblical proportions.

AP

An Indian child, dressed as Hindu god Lord Shiva, plays in the sand at the Sangam in Allahabad.

AFP/Getty Images

Mourners embrace during a funeral for Rabbi Menachem Froman in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Tekoa. Froman was the town’s chief rabbi and a well-known advocate of peace with the Palestinians.

Reuters

Everitt Cisnado-Davis, 7, clambors through a model of a Glyptodont shell on display during the Extreme Mammals exhibition at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta.

EPA

An Indian forestry worker walks past the body of an elephant, struck by a train at the Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal.

AFP/Getty Images

A fire lights up the night at the Naples, Italy, museum park. Four buildings were damaged by the blaze.